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Category: Landmarks

This next extract was written after I came back from Xi’An. There was no need in taking my iPad where I had written all of this, so they all got bundled up into this one draft. Consider it my Christmas treat to you all. Sunday 17th July Okay, […]

Friday 15th July It was difficult to get the alliteration on this one, so I sort of cheated. Oh well. A view from the Wall. V. foggy that day, which made it refreshingly crisp-great for the climb. We woke up even earlier today; a tumultuous six o’clock. So […]

Wednesday 13th July Correction on yesterday’s promise of today. Turns out it was the Summer Palace, not just some park round the corner. (Chinese can be very vague sometimes.) My lesser other half (LOH) once again slept like a baby, whilst I woke up at five and […]

Cat caught red-handed napping under fence Beautiful sunset in Piraeus Freaky statues in a museum at night. What more could you possibly want? A luxurious duck-shaped vessel made of one single piece of rock-crystal, a piece of Minoan craftsmanship Purrloin. A warm wake up Furball. The sea cat […]

This was to be our last day in Athens (well, sort of-the plane left the next day), and wasn’t it spectacular! One day cruises Some ruins on one of the islands Isn’t that just stunning? The one day cruise we were embarking on took us to the islands […]